So stop whining about having a hard time picking your color schemes and use one of these great tools.

And remember our designs always tend to pull towards colors we like, sometimes the creative juices get flowing in directions you’ve never taken them just by going with a scheme your not normally comfortable doing work in.

So go ahead bookmark this yo.

bookmarkbliss.com top 10 color scheme tools

You can dowload this great resource from here:

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Ever looked at certain designs on other websites and seen how they made the input forms match the rest of the sites design and feel?

Well heres a step by step example with code and design to show you how to get this done, brought to you by the smart people over at Picment.com

Click here to visit the tutorial.

The owner of the site does ask for a little compensation for commercial use, but the quality is just amazing and the time saved in just adding one of these to one of your designs is priceless.

I really believe that the 50’s retro vibe lends itself really well to advertising and design in general so just from an inspiration standpoint these would help break a creativity block or a need for fresh ideas.

I’d post some samples but you’ll get a better feel by just visiting the site:

http://www.pixeldecor.com/patterns.shtml

The author of the artwork and site is Jen Funk Segrest of Very Big Design:

http://www.verybigdesign.com/

And Remember as much as some will say that it’s all about the sales copy, good sales copy with crappy graphics still looks unprofessional and how many sales are lost because of it?

A little cash spent on good design is money well spent. ( especially if it’s paying me… j/k)

Ok so I ran across this site yesterday and I had never seen it! Usually when I need a texture style image for a design, graphic, or piece of artwork I usually just grab my trusty Canon and go out and take some pictures to get the texture I like.

Well it looks like some smart people decided to put up a cool site that has hi-res textures for download… and it’s Free! so these ultra-nice people at REH3 Design have created TextureKing, They don’t have a huge amount there but it seems to be growing and sure beats taking out your camera and taking these yourself!

I am going to post a tutorial on how to use these to create graphics for your sites in the next day or two so stay tuned to the blog.

Please visit and support the great work these guys do.

His pdf is now printed and taped to my wall above my desk.

Follow the link:

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/css-cheat-sheet/

He also has a nice HTML Cheatsheet too:

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/html-cheat-sheet/ 

Don’t you hate how all your sites and designs seem to follow a general color scheme set? Go ahead and take a look right now, weird how everything seems to follow a trend over time huh? Well I’ve found a really cool site that will actually let you download cool color schemes as files you can use directly:

They allow you to download photoshop color table file, adobe illustrator file, color schemer file, top style file or as a zip of all of the above. It is a great tool and people contribute daily with new attractive color schemes to put some fire in your creative juices!

Visit them here:

http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/

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Here’s a cool tutorial on how to make buttons that stretch to fit any text and use some small graphic files and just a little bit of CSS, the outcome of this small bit of CSS is just amazing, go ahead and take a look at this tutorial by Alex Griffioen:

http://www.oscaralexander.com/tutorials/how-to-make-sexy-buttons-with-css.html

Here’s a great little tool for creating header backgrounds for you sales & squeeze pages, nice and easy and no need for photoshop skills, just use it as a pattern or background in whatever graphics program you use, you’ll love it!

http://www.stripegenerator.com/index.php?page=index